January 27

Events

1832 - " 'But then,' thought Alice. 'shall I never get any older than I am now? That'll be a comfort, one way--never to be an old woman.' " - Legendary writer and pedo Lewis Carroll was born on this date. He was the first of eleven children, giving him lots of little siblings to play with as a boy. From an early age he was drawn towards the world of fancy, often putting on puppet shows for his friends and family and writing dozens of whimsical poems. Eventually he grew up to become a Mathematician, but In his spare time he found himself still writing childish poems and stories and pursuing the pastime of photography. His favorite subjects for photos were girls, sometimes clothed, sometimes naked. He once said that little girls should never have to wear clothes. He met young Alice Liddell, fell in love, and wrote his famous Alice In Wonderland both for and about her.

1994 - "Jordy C is not my lover / He's just a kid who says that I was the one" - A Reuters news service report on this date revealed that when the police examined and photographed every micrometer of Michael Jackson's body in an attempt to corroborate accusations that he had molested Jordy Chandler, the police found that none of Jackson’s features matched Jordy’s descriptions. As for the boy’s stories about his risqué encounters with Jackson, the circumstances under which those stories arose rob them of all credibility. Before Jordy Chandler said anything about molestation, the boy’s father, Evan Chandler, an aspiring screenwriter, became angry at Michael Jackson for not helping him with his career in Hollywood. Evan Chandler revealed that he had planned to destroy Michael Jackson in a secretly recorded telephone conversation that GQ magazine reported on in October 1994.

2000 - Just a little television show, or something more? - In Scotland a publication called The Big Picture printed a story on this date about the television show Queer As Folk. In that show's first episode a 29 year old man picks up a 15 year old boy and brings him home for a sexual encounter. Russell Davies, the creator and writer of the series, said, "The business about Nathan being 15 - it happens. It didn't occur to me for a second that because it's going on television you have to make it nicer and more palatable for people. I tell you what's interesting about that first episode. It's just people's reactions to a naked arse, basically. There are funny little pieces to camera that crop up now and again, and Stuart does one about how when he was 12 years old he got into the shower with his teacher and shagged him. No one commented on that. I've not had a single comment about scene because there's not a naked arse, but I think 's twice as shocking." The show went in a year from being the subject of endless complaints and criticisms for its content to one being credited with helping Britain to lower the AOC for homosexual sex.

2001 - Rape, unwanted pregnancy, and whipping - the trifecta!!! - The Nigerian teenager girl, Bariya Ibrahim Magazu, was convicted of pre-marital sex according to the Shari 'a laws of the Northern Nigerian state of Zamfara. At time Bariya thought she was thirteen or fourteen but she did not know for sure and no records existed. She was sentenced to 180 lashes from a whip, but because she was pregnant the punishment was postponed until after the child was born. She was sentenced to 100 lashes for the sex plus another 80 lashes for making false accusations. The latter were imposed because the court decided there was insufficient evidence to identify any of the three men she named as the possible fathers of her baby. This was a conclusion they came to based on the denials of the men, the fact they were so much older than her, and they were all married. Bariya stated in court she was coerced into having sexual intercourse. Other reports state this was at the instance of her father, who owed money to the three men. This date was the deadline for the girl to appeal the sentence. Her appeal was heard, denied, and the sentence carried out. No men were punished for the incident.